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• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  has a student holiday on Monday that the professors always seem to ... year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated ... circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  , President Maclaurin began his tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more ... time away from reading applications to remind everyone on our homepage ... weekend.     The purpose of this homepage is to reaffirm MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  D-Lab, a lab/class at MIT that focuses on sustainable technology in developing countries. We hope to bring the tests to chlorinators set up by a ... to do so much. I feel ridiculous and strange sitting in a hotel room

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  began an adventure to find the highest spot on campus which was both ... best pic I got. Feel free to try to make your guesses. On ... packed boxes: many, many boxes. I'm moving to a different room next year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a ... banana cake (Aside: making banana [blank] is a really good thing to do when

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  pizza pies. To top the evening off we'll have a Pi competition; the person ... it because I was running 3 miles on a treadmill in the Burton ... The Colbert Report, just like a real college student! And so I did on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  opposed to taking a gap year, or enrolling somewhere else). We always plan to go to the wait list, and almost always do. The students on our wait list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to ... Grotto has to the Freedlyville Quarry. The quarry entrance was about a mile ... was so much fun! I did take one pretty bad fall on my chin that left a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  straightforward (tips 1-4). It's harder to nail the slight (emphasis on slight ... perfume section. To test perfume, you are supposed to spray it on some ... ziplock bag. Back in my room, I put one card on a shelf near my radiator. My

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  comforter. There's a beautiful woven tapestry on the wall, depicting two ... bed and left the room this morning, CL was reading on a couch just ... drawn to that organization because they have a child with Down Syndrome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  Technically, there isn't much to shooting a pistol. Load rounds into ... . Inhale, raise arm. Exhale a little, press gently on the trigger until you meet resistance, lower arm to target. Focus on the front sight. Without

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by ... mentor, Steve Little, to no avail. That is, until one day when he changed a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a ... , the answer doesn't matter very much anyway. I got a 39 on my first math ... to anyone who knows what those two lines are from.) So on that note

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  checked my mail. A postcard! We read it, I showed it to Laura, and then ... DID YOU KNOW? John McCain is 2.41 Saturn years old. Funny story. On the way to dinner tonight we were discussing Adelaide '09 and her role

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student who lost out in ... doors for a second chance to participate in this extraordinarily popular ... student forgets to return the piece on time," Arning acknowledges, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  There Will Be Pi (Day)

  

  We have something to tell you - with a little help from the bloggers ... our automated system to reset it. Visit MyMIT and click on the forgotten ... available online on Friday, March 14, beginning at 6:28 PM ET. When decisions

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  guest post on her blog to let you know about some exciting opportunities ... area, you should check it out -- it's a great opportunity to meet some ... home of a Kansas City MIT Alum for a lovely Sunday afternoon. Be sure to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  't worry - you WILL have a host and a place to stay once you get here. We ... arrangements, a meeting time/place, and everything!) Anyways, in addition to ... (Doors open at 5:30pm) Kresge Auditorium (Here's a link to the online CPW

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to the P/NR system, have spent the past week playing Final Fantasy X on the big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  to MIT 3 years ago, I made a choice. And then I kept making choices ... life down in the sunlight of a suburb. I chose to do this exchange ... . And I chose to go to a city nearby and taste that heavenly sweet potato

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025